One of the presentations, made in the May 2009 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, highlighted opposition by the San Carlos Apache of Arizona to the prospect of a major new copper …
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Apache tribe resolves to defeat two mining giants
Rio Tinto robot mine on trial in the Pilbara
No workers – just robots – at Pilbara?
See http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,,25557380-36418,00.html.…
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“Is Vedanta guilty of a massive money laundering racket?” asks London Calling
Two months ago, at the end of March 2009, a judgment was delivered in Delhi’s High Court against some leading directors of UK-listed Vedanta Resources plc. The case received very little publicity even within India, …
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A new mining era for Mongolia?
Mongolia’s Democratic Party leader, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, won against the country’s ruling Peoples Revolutionary Party in May’s national elections. It was touch and go right up to the wire. What does this mean for the opening …
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Mined out in Zambia
Vedanta subsidiary sheds jobs, poisons river in Zambia.
See http://www.counterpunch.org/servant05292009.html.…
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Anglo American subsidiary under fire for grave removals
Jubilee South Africa
National Office
Press Statement
28 May 2009
RE-EXHUMED GRAVES REVEAL SOME FAMILY REMAINS WERE NOT REBURIED:
Original Removal of Graves Took Place in 2008 to Make Way for a Tailings Dam at …
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Indigenous communities in Venezuela seek land rights
Chief Sabino Romero is in two minds about Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution. As the leader of a small native Indian community in the remote and lawless mountains on Venezuela’s northwestern border with Colombia, Mr Romero …
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The unplumbed riches of the deep
In the world of seabed geology, if a sulphide deposit is massive, it is not necessarily big, but formless and rich in metals. As it happens, seafloor massive sulphides are also huge—at least they were …
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